#prisoners

Roki Aprisdianto (29), a convicted terrorist held at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police detention centre, has escaped ...

A senior Palestinian official said Saturday that the Israeli authorities decided to expel a Palestinian soccer player ...

Security forces were blockading roads around a desert prison in central Saudi Arabia on Monday, when relatives of ...

- Bustling, purposeful, teeming with traffic by day, New York after dark magically transforms into a city of ...

World leaders on Tuesday mourned the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi with high praise after the ...

More than half or 1,276 of 2,336 inmates of the Nusakambangan penitentiary have their prison terms cut including 32 ...

Prison sentences of more than 50,000 inmates lodged throughout Indonesia were reduced on the country`s Independence ...

Pakistan on Wednesday released 55 Indian fishermen, 15 of them teenagers, as a "goodwill gesture" to mark independence ...

The United States called on Iran to "release all political prisoners" Wednesday, expressing concern for a Kurdish ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday eased sanctions on Myanmar, allowing American companies to do business in the ...

Myanmar on Saturday released student leaders held in the country`s largest crackdown on dissent since the end of ...

Somali pirates seizing Indian Ocean ships were responsible for at least 35 hostage deaths in 2011, a report showed on ...

Myanmar`s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi announced in Britain on Tuesday that she was prepared to take the helm as ...

Myanmar`s government is planning to free more political prisoners as early as next month, a minister said Monday in ...

Fifty international NGOs and United Nations agencies on Thursday called on Israel to lift its Gaza blockade, first ...